Dr. Dre gets into hardware

A VERY unique headphone dubbed Beats, branded by none other than Dr. Dre, is on review at Hardware Canucks. *cough* $399 *cough*.

Benchmark Reviews has some OCZ triple-channel 1333MHz kit, in 6GB flavour. These are actually DDR3-1066 ICs with the SPD programmed for 1333.

NZXT's Zero 2 case is being reviewed at Cowcotland (Googlenglish). It's a bit dated in terms of features, but features fittings for tons of fans, so the €99 seems well worth it.

Tbreak is playing around with an ECS GF8200A motherboard. This is a full-size ATX mobo (contrary to popular IGP designs) plenty a feature for AMD processors, but no big thrills.

Testing the truth about the Phenom II's renowned overclocking ability, Legit Reviews is testing an X3 720 BE with dry ice. That's 4.59GHz on overclock... Cool.

Gigabyte continues to expand its Core i7 line-up. Xbit Labs has a GA-EX58-UD5 and a GA-EX58-Extreme on the bench.

Madshrimps has an ultimate "120mm fan" test, with 35 models taking part in this roundup. Plenty info to figure out which one(s) will go into your rig.

Seagate's slightly unknown line of Pipeline HD Pro drives surfaced at Silent PC Review. The 1TB drives use the 333MB platters and have a higher sustained data rate than the "traditional" Barracudas.

Since Nvidia partners are still dumping stock, they come up with some interesting designs with older chips. Enter Guru of 3D's review of the Galaxy Geforce 9800GTX+ 512MB review.

Sapphire's HD 4670 with GDDR4 is reviewed again, this time at Modders Inc. Not expensive and some baseline performance.

Tom's Hardware Store has updated its "Best Graphics Cards for the Money": February '09. More GTX 285 and 295 numbers you'll want to see.

Overclockers Club is testing the SilenX IXG-80HA2 VGA cooler. It's a two-part job: cooler and fans, and works wonderfully with or without.

OCZ's new Apex SSD drive is on review at Fudzilla and at Driverheaven. The 120GB is an improvement over previous generations and the price is slowly coming down... 'just' $300.

On the other hand, there's also an OCZ Summit 250GB SSD MLC-based kit on review at PC Perspective. It looks like the Intel X25-M is getting a run for its money.

MSI's GT627 gaming notebook is on review at Notebook Review. It's got plenty of power under the bonnet and doesn't cost as much as many gaming notebooks out there. µ